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tipping the appstore
What is it about Americans and their obsession with tipping applications? The appstore is full of little applications for calculating tips. It is a sad comment on a nation whose people need a computer to work out a 10% tip or how to split the cost of a meal between two people.
mr mcmuffin on 5 Aug 2008 @ 08:54 AM ✲ Permalink
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There's no equivalent in US primary education of the mental arithmetic I had to do in the 70s. It's the only way I can explain how friends who seem otherwise perfectly bright are unable to work out what 15% of X is. Given that in the DC area the general habit is to tip at about 20%, it's even less excusable.
Posted by: Colin | 5 Aug 2008 20:31:25
I can work without a machine! I can also convert miles to kilometers and kilometers to miles and $ to Euros and Euros to $. I are right smart...but don't ever ask me to reverse an angle or square a root.
Posted by: Karan | 6 Aug 2008 19:54:28
wow, I haven't commented here in a very long time! I am a guilty party! Its the 15% that gets me so I have been a good tipper for a long time. Everyone gets 20% woo hoo, and have when tipping that much was exuberant lol. 10% and 20%? Dude, if you can't remember that, then your teachers failed you big time!
And is bugger really a swear word? I use it to keep from say a swear word LOL.
Posted by: jsutme | 9 Aug 2008 11:44:46
